A post-show discussion will be presented following the Nov. 3 matinee performance of Jason Grote's 1001, which currently plays the Nagelberg Theatre at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Playwrights Grote and Theresa Rebeck will take part in the discussion, which will "focus on the playwright's process when she or he is telling a human story in a political context," according to press notes. "The two will look at how a playwright tells a story in a play that looks at politics without compromising the human element of the play."

"Mixing the labyrinthine wordplay of Jorge Louis Borges with the ideas of Edward Said and the slapstick comedy of Monty Python, 1001," press notes state, "hyperlinks Scheherazade's tales to contemporary Manhattan. Time blurs and reality is fractured and reconstructed in a world inhabited by characters whose identity shifts unpredictably and deliriously. With rollicking storytelling, a touch of magic realism, and even a little trip-hop music, 1001 simultaneously defaces and energizes 'A Thousand and One Arabian Nights' to guide us through a tour of the dizzyingly precarious world of the 21st century."

Show times are Monday-Friday at 8 PM and Saturday at 3 and 8 PM through Nov. 17. Tickets, priced $25 (general admission) and $35 (reserved seating), are available by calling (212) 352-3101 or by visiting www.1001nyc.com. The Nagelberg Theater at the Baruch Performing Arts Center is located at 55 Lexington Avenue — entrance on 25th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues. For more information visit www.p73.org.